Thursday, March 30, 2017

I love coordinating tags, paper and embellishments for gift giving.Sometimes gifts can be difficult to wrap in a traditional way - an odd size or shape means that you have to think 'outside the box' to make it work. I created a trio of gift wraps for my sister-in-law's birthday gifts, using Botanical Silhouettes and Distressed Stripes stamps, along with a simple white bag and card stock and turquoise tissue paper and card stock.

After wrapping the main gift with tissue paper, I used some extra paper to make a 'pom pom' flower to act as a topper. A green ribbon and stamped tag finishes (Tremendous Tags die cut) the design.

A white bag was stamped with images from Botanical Silhouettes using Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist, Summer Sunrise, Canyon Clay and Simply Chartreuse. A small butterfly (Butterfly Dreams) was stamped in Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise and Canyon Clay. A strip of Hawaiian Shores was die cut with the Large Scallop Border Die, folded over the top of the white bag and then tied with a small piece of green Baker's Twine.

Butterfly: stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, die cut and then coloured with copic markers. A yellow and white solid butterfly die cut was adhered to the card front and then the coloured die cut was attached so that the wings could be curled up for added dimension. Purple dots (from my stash) were 'sprinkled' around the butterfly as accents.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

I really adore the Comic Strip Cover Plate from Papertrey Ink and have used it often for birthday, baby and anniversary cards. This card was made for my grand niece's 6th birthday.I started by cutting the cover plate in Stamper's Select White card stock and sponging the frame portions with a variety of pink inks, to create an ombre look.

With a colour scheme of pink (Hibiscus Burst), purple (Winter Wisteria, Plum Pudding) and yellow (Lemon Tart, Harvest Gold), I filled each of the blocks withstamps and die cuts from Zappy Birthday and Superhero.

Top left panel:

Background paper: Plum Pudding Bitty Dots paper.

Zappy Birthdaydie cut was stamped with Hibiscus Burst.

Sentiment: from Zappy Birthdaystamped onto a narrow piece of white card stock to create a banner.

About Me

After teaching for 31 years, I retired in order to spend more time travelling, gardening and crafting!! I have always loved to sew and knit, but after I left teaching I decided it was time to organize all of the family pictures into scrapbooks. I haven't gotten too far on that project, as I started taking card making classes at the local scrap booking store and then became fascinated with stamping... now I can be 'lost' in my crafty room for hours at a time!! I have two grown sons and a very understanding and supportive husband.